Akari Kaida

• Name — Akari Kaida • Native Name — 海田 明里 • Born — 10 January 1974 • Birthplace — Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan • Genre — Video game music • Occupation — Composer • Instrument — Piano • Years Active — 1994–present • Label — Brave Wave

Kaida was a jazz piano major in college, spending her first year at the Osaka College of Music before joining Capcom in 1994. She became a freelance composer in 2005, but still continued to work on various Capcom projects, most recently becoming part of the Inti Creates sound team for Mega Man games.

• Year — Title — Notes • 1995 — Night Warriors: Darkstalkers' Revenge — Music with Takayuki Iwai and Hideki Okugawa • Cyberbots: Full Metal Madness — Music with Takayuki Iwai, Masato Kouda, and Naoaki Iwami • Street Fighter Alpha — Console version; arrangements with Naoshi Mizuta and Naoaki Iwami • 1996 — Resident Evil — Data conversion • 1997 — Breath of Fire III — Music with Yoshino Aoki • 1998 — Mega Man & Bass — Music with Toshihiko Horiyama and Naoshi Mizuta • 1999 — Trick'N Snowboarder — Music with Masami Ueda • Dino Crisis — "Abandoned Hope" • 2001 — Mega Man Battle Network — Music • 2004 — Onimusha 3: Demon Siege — Music with Masamichi Amano, Hideki Okugawa, and Kouta Suzuki • Rockman EXE 4.5 Real Operation — Music with Toshihiko Horiyama • Mega Man Battle Network 5 — Music • 2006 — Ōkami — Music with Masami Ueda, Hiroshi Yamaguchi, and Rei Kondoh • 2007 — Luminous Arc — Music with Yasunori Mitsuda, Kazumi Mitome, and Shota Kageyama • 2008 — Luminous Arc 2 — Music with Yoko Shimomura, Yoshino Aoki, and Shunsuke Tsuchiya • Mega Man Star Force 3 — Music with Yoshino Aoki • 2009 — Rockman EXE Operate Shooting Star — Music with Yoshino Aoki and Marika Suzuki • 2010 — Mega Man 10 — "King of Blades (Blade Man Stage)" • Tokimeki Memorial Girl's Side: 3rd Story — Music with various others • LovePlus+ — Music with various others • 2011 — Dream Club Zero — Arrangements ("Sunao ni Narenai" and "Toki no Kakera") • 2012 — New LovePlus — Music with various others • 2014 — Super Smash Bros. for Wii U — Arrangements • 2015 — Chunithm — "Sabaku no Hunting Girl" • Prince of Stride — Vocals ("Let the Wind Blow") • 2019 — Earth Defense Force: Iron Rain — Music with Masanori Ōtsuka, Yuichi Baba, and Shinya Chikamori • Phantasy Star Online 2 Episode 6 — Lyrics with various others • 2020 — Samurai Jack: Battle Through Time — Music with various others • Earth Defense Force: World Brothers — Music with Yuichi Baba and Noi Iizuka • 2021 — DC Super Hero Girls: Teen Power — Music with various others • Phantasy Star Online 2 New Genesis — Lyrics ("A World Beyond a Sky") • 2023 — Fashion Dreamer — Music with various others • 2024 — Tekken 8 — Music with various others • Earth Defense Force: World Brothers 2 — Music with various others • Phantasy Star Online 2 New Genesis The Festival of Light & The Dark Tyrant — Lyrics ("Driven by Hope" and "Unite") • TBA — Penny Blood — Music with Yoshitaka Hirota, Nobuo Uematsu, and Kenji Ito